Recent posts tagged agentic-ai

From graph lambdas to action catalogs When building a workflow with LangGraph4j, I usually start with a few nodes and straightforward transitions. As the workflow grows, the graph definition can become crowded with action implementations, configura...

Why we’ve stopped noticing the real improvement opportunity Since AI arrived, many people have mentioned that the bottleneck has shifted from coding to code review. This isn’t quite right, as coding wasn’t the bottleneck in the first place, and it’s...

Choosing the right LLM for your Agentic AI application is the first and crucial step. But with 3,00,000+ options out there, how do you know which is the right one? Ok, in reality, we don't have to choose from 300,000+, since most models are just re...

Radical behaviorism is the worst way to build software AI is addictive, and managers are rewarding those who use it the most even though they are shipping stuff they don’t understand. What a tangled mess. Let’s unpack some of the findings from the A...

AI literacy may help us use today’s systems. Futures literacy may determine whether we are prepared for what those systems become. The conversation around becoming “AI-ready” is moving remarkably fast. A new model appears. A new coding assistant laun...

How a two-tier encrypted vault keeps credentials out of the model context — and why the standard .env approach is a security liability for autonomous agents. For a normal web application, a .env file is a perfectly reasonable way to manage secrets. ...

Day 2 of restarting my journey toward becoming an AI FDE Forward Deployed Engineer. It's only the second day, but I wanted to keep documenting what I'm actually doing — even when the progress isn't huge. Today, I completed the Week 1 module of the ...

From Data Engineering to AI Systems: Hardik Goel’s Developer Journey in the Age of AI > “A prompt is a single turn of hope. A loop is a system.” Software development has changed dramatically over the past two decades. The tools have changed. Infr...

This journey started as a 180-day plan. A plan I wrote to become an AI FDE. But honestly, I failed to work on it. Days went by. The plan stayed unfinished. And now, only 108 days are left. But today, I’m starting again. What brought me back? A ...

A 100-page paper, 40+ authors, three universities. Here’s the one sentence that should keep enterprise AI teams up at night. There’s a paper that dropped this month from UIUC, Meta, and Stanford. Forty-something authors. A hundred-plus pages. Title:...

After reviewing dozens of agentic AI implementations over the past 6 months, I've noticed a pattern: the distinction between autonomy and authority is the single most overlooked design principle in production systems. Autonomy = what an agent can de...

In his classic book The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks introduces the surgical team metaphor where the head surgeon a chief programmer write the critical code while other developers take on supporting roles i.e., copilot, toolsmith, administrator, e...

Picking a model on just a single factor retail price, benchmark scores, industry hype rarely predicts the true cost or quality of agentic development. I had a project that required an agentic development lifecycle and some free cycles, so the team ra...

Domain 2 is an important topic as well, because you should understand it if you want to be an effective agentic developer. It includes 5 subtopics: 2.1 Design effective tool interfaces with clear descriptions and boundaries It is all about tool de...

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6, about a month after Grok 4.5. The pitch is narrow and specific, which I appreciate: the release is aimed at long-running agents and at "more ambitious interactive and visual wor...

I decided to create a comprehensive preparation guide for the Claude Certified Architect Foundation exam. First, creating this guide helps me focus on the details and prepare more thoroughly for the exam. Second, I would like to share what I have lea...